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Deconstructing fear in Indonesian cinema: Diachronic analysis of antagonist representations in half a century of Indonesian horror films 1970-2020

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2023
The antagonist representations in horror films demonstrate how cultural symptoms of a community respond to fear. The diachronic analysis in this study employs a mixed method to analyze the dynamics of antagonist representation in Indonesian horror films.
Justito Adiprasetio
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Postklasyczna groza. Przeobrażenia fuzji gatunkowej survival horroru

open access: yesImages, 2023
This article provides an introduction to the study of the transformation of the survival horror genre. The author discusses the genre determinants of horror games from the historical perspective, draw- ing particular attention to the moment when ...
Dominika Staszenko-Chojnacka
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MYSTERY IN TECHNO-HORROR. ON THE EXAMPLE OF KAIRO (2001) BY KIYOSHI KUROSAWA

open access: yesLitteraria Copernicana, 2014
In my paper I focused on the concept of horror cinema, and on how Japanese horror films functions in reception by a modern viewer. I also try to analyse interrelations between American and Japanese horror movies. I refer to the Kairo as the evidence of a
Małgorzata Major
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Horror in the Andes

open access: yesJournal of Anthropological Films, 2020
Horror in the Andes is a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the process of making a horror movie in Ayacucho, Peru. Directed by audio-visual anthropologist Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, it explores how Andean filmmakers use the horror genre as a means
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
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Copyrights and digitizing the systematic literature: the horror... the horror... [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
It is time for us to take full advantage of the investment that our societies have made in documenting the biodiversity of the world. It is time for us to fully, and legally, make systematic literature available worldwide. Using U.S. "Fair Use"
N. Dean Pentcheff
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RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN HORROR FICTION AS A GENRE, CREATIVE WRITING AND EDUCATIONAL PHENOMENON: A PROBLEM STATEMENT

open access: yesМногоязычие в образовательном пространстве, 2019
Although the genre of horror has gained an extraordinary popularity in contemporary literature, it still raises controversy among specialists. The situation in Russia is especially complicated.
Vyacheslav Sergeevich Malykh
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Hyde's horrors [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1998
Can you tell a criminal from the look of his face? The “downright detestable” appearance of Robert Louis Stevenson's evil Mr Hyde stands in the same tradition as the images used by Darwin in his work on pathognomics.
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Horror, personality, and threat simulation: A survey on the psychology of scary media.

open access: yes, 2020
Horror entertainment is a thriving and paradoxical industry. Who are the consumers of horror, and why do they seek out frightening media? We provide support for the threat simulation theory of horror, according to which horror media provides a form of ...
Mathias Clasen   +2 more
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Horrible Heroes: Liberating Alternative Visions of Disability in Horror

open access: yesDisability Studies Quarterly, 2016
Understanding disability requires understanding its social construction, and social construction can be read in cultural products. In this essay, I look to one major locus for images of persons with disabilities—horror.
Melinda Hall
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Existentialism and art-horror [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article explores the relationship between existentialism and the horror genre. Noël Carroll and others have proposed that horror monsters defy established categories. Carroll also argues that the emotion they provoke - 'art-horror' - is a 'composite'
Hanscomb, S.
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